• animate props and play the animation via lua
• create a timer
• trigger an ambush via lua without having the player enter a region

[b][color=#FF8000]The FAQ / Everything You Need Thread Version 3.0[/color][/b] wrote:...
LUA
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• OnEnterRegion function example

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AQT wrote:Do you know how to:

• animate props and play the animation via lua
• create a timer
• trigger an ambush via lua without having the player enter a region

?

If so, use all of that with the following, and you should be good to go:

[b][color=#FF8000]The FAQ / Everything You Need Thread Version 3.0[/color][/b] wrote:...
LUA
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• OnEnterRegion function example

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SkinnyODST wrote:

AQT wrote:Do you know how to:

• animate props and play the animation via lua

1. I know how to animate props but not how to play them via lua

SkinnyODST wrote:

AQT wrote:

• create a timer

2. Not really, i`ve read the tut on it but don`t really understand how to set thing out.

SkinnyODST wrote:

AQT wrote:

• trigger an ambush via lua without having the player enter a region
  ?

3. No

SkinnyODST wrote:I have taken a look at that OnEnterRegion thing and have no idea how to make my CIS lander plan work. I get it up until the "if [whatever callbacks you want] then whatvever you want to happen" part. I don`t know what to write there to make it work

ActivateRegion("regionname")
testfunction = OnEnterRegion(
     function(region, player)
          PlayAnimation("whateveranimationgroup")
          timername = CreateTimer("timername")
          SetTimerValue(timername, number)
          StartTimer(timername)
               OnTimerElapse(
                    function(timer)
                    Ambush(ambushpath, numDudes, fromTeam)
                    DestroyTimer(timer)
               end,
          timername
          )   
     end,
"regionname"
)

• regionname = name of the region player steps into
• whateveranimationgroup = name of the animation group
• timername = name of timer
• number = the amount of seconds it takes for animation group to play from start to finish
• ambushpath = name of ambush path
• numDudes = number of AI to spawn from path/number of spawn nodes on path
• fromTeam = the team in which the ambush AI spawn from

AQT wrote:You should undo everything you did there.

Combining the information from the various tutorials provided, I've taken the liberty and done 95% of the work for you:

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ActivateRegion("regionname")
testfunction = OnEnterRegion(
     function(region, player)
          PlayAnimation("whateveranimationgroup")
          timername = CreateTimer("timername")
          SetTimerValue(timername, number)
          StartTimer(timername)
               OnTimerElapse(
                    function(timer)
                    Ambush(ambushpath, numDudes, fromTeam)
                    DestroyTimer(timer)
               end,
          timername
          )   
     end,
"regionname"
)

• regionname = name of the region player steps into
• whateveranimationgroup = name of the animation group
• timername = name of timer
• number = the amount of seconds it takes for animation group to play from start to finish
• ambushpath = name of ambush path
• numDudes = number of AI to spawn from path/number of spawn nodes on path
• fromTeam = the team in which the ambush AI spawn from

Can you figure out the remaining 5% by yourself?

SkinnyODST wrote:The animation starts anyway. It goes from 0 to 15 seconds, I don`t get how I make the animation play ONLY when I step into the region.

• Calm down and double-check what you are doing.
• You have "Plays When Level Begins" enabled in ZE for this animation group. It means and does what it means and does in plain English. (Yes, disable it.)
• 0 to 15 seconds is 15 seconds in total. So it takes 15 seconds for your animated ship to completely land? Then why did you set your timer for 5 seconds?

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SetTimerValue(timername, 5)

SkinnyODST wrote:The ambush works because it was already set up.

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SetupAmbushTrigger("ambushregion", "ambushpath", 6, 3)

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Ambush(ambushpath, 8, 5)

SkinnyODST wrote:And what do you mean "you renamed the region and path (which you are allowed to) to something else?" They are ambushregion and ambushpath.

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SetupAmbushTrigger("ambushregion", "ambushpath", 6, 3)

SkinnyODST wrote:Do you know why this isn`t working?

• It could be that "thing" isn't really the name of your animation group, so it's trying to play a nonexistent animation group.
• If you really wanted to test if the problem is with your animation, use the PlayAnimation("thing") line by itself outside of the OnEnterRegion function. The animation would play at the start of the level if there are no problems. And no, I am not saying to enable the "Plays When Level Begins" button again in ZE. Again, you are merely testing to see if the PlayAnimation function will play your animation on its own outside of the OnEnterRegion function.
• You are making things more complicated than they need to be; OnEnterRegion doesn't already work with AI units, so having the condition that checks to see if a human player is entering the region is redundant. But if you really want to do it anyway, the line you are using is wrong. Instead of:

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  IsCharacterHuman(character)

  It should be:

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  IsCharacterHuman(player)

  Because it would then match with:

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  function(region, player)

SkinnyODST wrote:I`m just going to forget about the ambush AND animation when entering the region, its extremely hard for me, and it`s annoying you at how stupid I am with it. Now all I wish to know is: How do I get an animation to start when I enter a region? I`m going to just not worry about doing both an ambush as well as the animation. Will the OnEnterRegion work in doing that? If not, what code will?

ActivateRegion("region_name")
OnEnterRegion(
	function(region, player)
		PlayAnimation("animation_group_name")
		
		DeactivateRegion("region_name")	-- Keep this line if you want the animation to play only once
	end,
"region_name"
)

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ActivateRegion("region_name")
OnEnterRegion(
	function(region, player)
		PlayAnimation("animation_group_name")
		
		DeactivateRegion("region_name")	-- Keep this line if you want the animation to play only once
	end,
"region_name"
)

Put anywhere at the end of the ScriptPostLoad() function in your Lua.

ActivateRegion("arcregion")
OnEnterRegion(
   function(region, player)
      PlayAnimation("region_anim", "arcflyregion", 0, 15)
      
      DeactivateRegion("arcregion")   -- Keep this line if you want the animation to play only once
   end,
"arcregion"
)

SkinnyODST wrote:

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      PlayAnimation("region_anim", "arcflyregion", 0, 15)
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Everything is named right and set up in ZE. However nothing happens when I step into the region?

I don't know why you added those extra arguments to PlayAnimation()

Oceans14 wrote:The debugger is the bf2_modtools.exe, and the error log is called bf2_log.txt (or something similar, you'll see it.) If you haven't already, move bf2_modtools.exe from your modding directory to your actual bf2 directory. It should be sitting next to the exe for the actual game.